MOVEMENT: “Clap, Tap and Bend” from It’s Toddler Time by Carol Hammett and Elaine Bueffel

FLANNELBOARD:Five Eggs and Five Eggs
Five eggs and five eggs (hold up 5 fingers on one hand, then on the other)
That makes ten. (hold up ten fingers)
Sitting on top is a mother hen. (make one hand into fist, lay other hand on top of it)
Crackle, crackle, crackle. (clap hands for each crackle)
What do I see? (hands up and shrug)
Ten yellow chicks as happy as can be. (wiggle ten fingers)

BOUNCE: “Ladies Ride” from Wiggleworms Love You by Old Town School of Folk Music

MOVEMENT: Patty Cake

BOOK:Mama’s Little Bears by Nancy Tafuri

TICKLE: See the Little Mousie*

NURSERY RHYME:
(Pattern taken from The Flannel Board Storytelling Book by Judy Sierra)
Hickory Dickory Dock
The mouse ran up the clock
The clock struck one
The mouse ran down
Hickory Dickory Dock.

HOW IT WENT:There are a lot of nice books for little ones about mothers out there, which makes this a fun storytime to put together. I had never read Mama’s Little Bears before at a storytime, but I really liked it as a choice for this one. It seemed to be a nice blend to have one really sweet book, and then one that was more of a story with a mother.